Each year, ARC curates, presents, and co-sponsors a season of events, under a unifying theme, and in coordination with our many partners on campus. For our 25th Anniversary year, the 2025/26 theme is RESURGENCE.
Two-Day Letterpress Workshop Sat February 28th & Sun March 1st, 2026 10am to 4pm each day Location: The Codex Foundation, 1331 Seventh Street, Unit D, Berkeley, CA
Open to Berkeley undergraduate & graduate students Limited enrollment, capped at 8 students Spots given on a first-come, first-served basis Cost to participants underwritten by the Arts Research Center
Due to the limited space and cost, we ask that you commit to attending if you sign-up; we are taking a waiting...
Each year, ARC curates, presents, and co-sponsors a season of events, under a unifying theme, and in coordination with our many partners on campus. For our 25th Anniversary year, the 2025/26 theme is RESURGENCE.
Poetry & the Mythic Imagination: Jennifer Reimer & Aimee Suzara Poetry Reading and Conversation Moderated by Erika Higbee Thursday, October 16, 2025 6:00pm Location: Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23 Free & open to the public Presented by the Arts Research Center with support from the Dean's Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities and co-sponsored by the Dept of English, Asian American Research Center, and the Center for Race & Gender
Julia Keefe gave an Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 18, 2025. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Julia Keefe (Nez Perce) is an internationally acclaimed Native American jazz vocalist, actor, activist, and educator currently based in New York City. Her professional career has spanned over 20 years and she has headlined marquee events at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C., NMAI-NY, as well as opened for the likes of 20-time GRAMMY Award winner Tony Bennett and 4-time GRAMMY Award...
Sarah Biscarra Dilley was a Visiting Artist at the Arts Research Center in January 2025, giving an Artist talk and leading a Workshop: Using Visual Art for Language Reclamation. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Sarah Biscarra Dilley (b. 1986, unceded Nisenan land, unratified Treaty “J” region) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, educator, member of the yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash tribe and Director of Indigenous Programs and Relationality at Forge Project.
Former ARC Director, Professor & Scholar of Modern and Contemporary Art
History of Art
If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.
Julia Bryan-Wilson's research interests include feminist and queer theory, theories of artistic labor, performance and dance, production/fabrication, craft histories, photography, video, visual culture of the nuclear age, and collaborative practices. She is the author of four books: Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (University of California, 2009, named a best book of the year by the New York Times and Artforum); Art in the Making: Artists...
